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🧶Yarn Emoji
Unicode added 🧶 yarn in Emoji 11.0 (2018), filed under Activities → Arts & Crafts. Its codepoint is U+1F9F6, and it is tagged ball, crochet and knit.
What 🧶 yarn means
A small mixed set covering making things. 🎨 stands for creative work generally, 🖼️ for finished art, 🎭 for drama in the gossip sense as much as theatre. The crafting half — 🧵, 🧶, 🪡, 🪢 — has an odd second life: 🧵 is the standard marker for a multi-post thread on social platforms, which has nothing to do with sewing.
Unicode tags this one ball, crochet and knit and files it under Activities → Arts & Crafts.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9F6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧶 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧶 | |
| CSS | \1F9F6 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9F6} | |
| Python | \U0001F9F6 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDF6 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9f6} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9F6} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9F6} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%B6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 B6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDF6 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ntg== | |
| Decimal | 129526 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- ball
- crochet
- knit
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧶
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “yarn”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “ball”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9f6and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧶.
How 🧶 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧶Apple
- 🧶Segoe
- 🧶Noto
- 🧶System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧶 yarn emoji mean?+
🧶 is the yarn emoji, tagged ball, crochet and knit. A small mixed set covering making things. 🎨 stands for creative work generally, 🖼️ for finished art, 🎭 for drama in the gossip sense as much as theatre. The crafting half — 🧵, 🧶, 🪡, 🪢 — has an odd second life: 🧵 is the standard marker for a multi-post thread on social platforms, which has nothing to do with sewing.
What is the Unicode code for 🧶?+
yarn is U+1F9F6. In HTML that is 🧶, in CSS \1F9F6, and in JavaScript \u{1F9F6}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧶 emoji added?+
yarn got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Arts & Crafts in Activities.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧶 yarn.